"Photo Binge" began as seven large-scale digital
collages displayed in lightboxes that are typically used for
advertisements (ironically they were discarded and replaced with thinner
ones). This title mirrors my state of mind while photographing - an
impulsive, out of control state that arises from similar rituals like
binge eating, smoking, speeding, drinking, and shopping. I chose sports
related backgrounds as a reference to bone, sweat, desire,
spectatorship, competition, achievement and the repetition of
continually judging, evaluating and comparing. The work satirizes an
urban, commodity driven culture that focuses on food, health, nutrition,
beauty and the surface of things. The work was also on display through
LA's Metro Art Public Art Lightbox Program:
http://www.metro.net/news/simple_pr/metro-art-unveils-new-photo-installation-downtown-/.

"A colorful dish is a balanced dish" is a saying the counselor
stressed in a "Conscious Eating" workshop I attended. I created the
two-headed passive/aggressive woman doing push-ups, the cow-woman doing
leg lifts (she is also in the cow yoga pose), the elephant girl who
power walks backwards on the treadmill, the egg-breasted girl, Big
Bertha on the lift, the strong lady who holds up the world, and the
ballerinesque watermelon-girl.

Juggling donuts and balancing on the fine line of the vacuum-tube
tightrope, the exercise pole swallower and a classic blonde ringmaster
were all basic ingredients I added to complete my circus. Circus-goers
can play the wheel of food, take an endless cycle on the oversized
hamster wheel, get their fantasy-faces painted by a certified
cosmetician, see if they weigh in on the Honest Scale, crawl through the
Big Cheese, and test their eyes to see if they are ugly—just as long
as they watch their step.

High Performance, 44x118", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

Bone, sweat, desire, spectatorship, competition, achievement... ﻿

Golf and Games, 46x92", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

When breast implants, or any foreign object including artificial joints, are placed into the body, the body forms a lining around it. This lining is formed by living tissue and is termed "capsule contracture," the most common complication of breast augmentation surgery. Surgeons have referred to this contracture as being doorknob-like. The main character in "Golf and Games", who has door-knob breasts, is wearing a Victoria Secret’s seamless tank in soft, high-tech nylon/Lycra microfiber and performs a breast enhancing exercise in Nike full stretch polyester brief lined shorts. The janitor to the left holds a brass MIT dorm doorknob plaque up to her—the doorknob affect is a term used in psychological treatment when questions and thoughts emerge as the patient is just about to leave the office. These questions and thoughts are really a last second, desperate attempt for relief. The girl is adorned with coral jewelry, and it refers to Robert Barefoot and Coral Calcium. Coral Calcium has been proven beneficial for weight loss, cancer, joint pain, heart disease, high cholesterol, muscle cramps, kidney stones, indigestion, allergies, headaches, and much more! (Hours of coral calcium infomercials were broadcasting while I made this work early into the mornings).

1. a. Absence of matter. b. A space empty of matter. c. A space in which the pressure is significantly lower than atmospheric pressure. 2. A state of emptiness; a void. 3. A state of being sealed off from external or environmental influences; isolation.

The liposuction machine only takes quarters- conveniently you can get change from the women circling the pool or from a booth located on the South side of the pool.

Warehoused, 46x46", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

To be warehoused—to institutionalize (people) in usually
deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational,
psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent.

Most of these "Warehoused" models are from a
Conscious Eating workshop I attended at the Kripalu Yoga Center. And
while they do have their own insulation, they are well larded with mats
and foam. Speakers are placed for those who do not have their own
voice. The Wilton instructor plans on decorating Lady Godiva with a
blood-like candy-filled cream, and a truck above sucks out their bony
remains and grinds them up and takes them away. In a Chinese Banquet,
the pig’s head is pointed toward the honored guest; here it is pointed
to the peepitrator. The Elizabeth Arden Red Door leads to the outside
arena, and an anesthesia and pasteurization machine provide
psychological immunity to those who cannot empower themselves and
transcend their desires with their own will-power. See these gladiators
sacrifice their bodies for our entertainment as their body and mind
suffers.

Digestion Begins through the Eyes, 46x34", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

This is a perfect gorge if you’ve got
hypokalemia, malnutrition or intestinal ulcers and want to lose time,
effort, money, self-esteem, and electrolytes. Here you can feel weak,
tired, dizzy, slow down your irregular pulse, and re-energize your lazy
colons. In addition, you can cause a dramatic shift to your identity by
riding the mood swings or by taking a soothing bath in the lithium-rich
water. The K line, the potassium tourist bus, arrives early in the
morning and leaves right after dinnertime. Purge by vomiting,
laxatives, water pills, or excessive exercise but do not worry about
lines for the bathrooms—as the divers are free to get disgusted with
themselves, keep their behavior a secret, and be excessive in private at
facilities located all over the park.

Batter Up, 34x46", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

"Batter UP" and experience love at first bite; welcome to the land of
love where enough is never enough as you're never full, satisfied or
complete. Accompanied by physical and emotional distress, here you can
consume as many tens of thousands of calories as you want within any
two-hour period. Can you hit a home run through all the buffet tables as
the pitcher throws you a brownie? There’s a new Lady of Justice, she
works for Prescriptives and is blindfolded with an eye-soothing mask
that revives tired eyes and reduces puffiness. She grips a cake-knife
and proudly holds a diet scale that accurately weighs in ounces up to
one pound. Penalty Time is missing three periods, but if you miss
yours, just make up a time of the month where you tell people that you
have it.

I think that pig is made of gluten.

234 images were mounted on the wall - that is the temperature of the softball test for making fudge. The
images were printed in different cake sizes-ranging from petite loaf at
2 1/4" by 3 1/2 to full sheet cake size at 16x24. The 4.5x8.5 images
were average loaf pan size, or meatloaf size. ﻿

For the reception, I made 5 pans of different fudges to mimic the cake sized prints: Pistachio, rocky road, cranberry vanilla, butterscotch, and peanut butter.

The butterflies were made from food coloring inks printed on potato wafer paper.

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Chocolate letters on cooling rack.

"Photo Binge" began as seven large-scale digital
collages displayed in lightboxes that are typically used for
advertisements (ironically they were discarded and replaced with thinner
ones). This title mirrors my state of mind while photographing - an
impulsive, out of control state that arises from similar rituals like
binge eating, smoking, speeding, drinking, and shopping. I chose sports
related backgrounds as a reference to bone, sweat, desire,
spectatorship, competition, achievement and the repetition of
continually judging, evaluating and comparing. The work satirizes an
urban, commodity driven culture that focuses on food, health, nutrition,
beauty and the surface of things. The work was also on display through
LA's Metro Art Public Art Lightbox Program:
http://www.metro.net/news/simple_pr/metro-art-unveils-new-photo-installation-downtown-/.

"A colorful dish is a balanced dish" is a saying the counselor
stressed in a "Conscious Eating" workshop I attended. I created the
two-headed passive/aggressive woman doing push-ups, the cow-woman doing
leg lifts (she is also in the cow yoga pose), the elephant girl who
power walks backwards on the treadmill, the egg-breasted girl, Big
Bertha on the lift, the strong lady who holds up the world, and the
ballerinesque watermelon-girl.

Juggling donuts and balancing on the fine line of the vacuum-tube
tightrope, the exercise pole swallower and a classic blonde ringmaster
were all basic ingredients I added to complete my circus. Circus-goers
can play the wheel of food, take an endless cycle on the oversized
hamster wheel, get their fantasy-faces painted by a certified
cosmetician, see if they weigh in on the Honest Scale, crawl through the
Big Cheese, and test their eyes to see if they are ugly—just as long
as they watch their step.

High Performance, 44x118", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

Bone, sweat, desire, spectatorship, competition, achievement... ﻿

Golf and Games, 46x92", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

When breast implants, or any foreign object including artificial joints, are placed into the body, the body forms a lining around it. This lining is formed by living tissue and is termed "capsule contracture," the most common complication of breast augmentation surgery. Surgeons have referred to this contracture as being doorknob-like. The main character in "Golf and Games", who has door-knob breasts, is wearing a Victoria Secret’s seamless tank in soft, high-tech nylon/Lycra microfiber and performs a breast enhancing exercise in Nike full stretch polyester brief lined shorts. The janitor to the left holds a brass MIT dorm doorknob plaque up to her—the doorknob affect is a term used in psychological treatment when questions and thoughts emerge as the patient is just about to leave the office. These questions and thoughts are really a last second, desperate attempt for relief. The girl is adorned with coral jewelry, and it refers to Robert Barefoot and Coral Calcium. Coral Calcium has been proven beneficial for weight loss, cancer, joint pain, heart disease, high cholesterol, muscle cramps, kidney stones, indigestion, allergies, headaches, and much more! (Hours of coral calcium infomercials were broadcasting while I made this work early into the mornings).

1. a. Absence of matter. b. A space empty of matter. c. A space in which the pressure is significantly lower than atmospheric pressure. 2. A state of emptiness; a void. 3. A state of being sealed off from external or environmental influences; isolation.

The liposuction machine only takes quarters- conveniently you can get change from the women circling the pool or from a booth located on the South side of the pool.

Warehoused, 46x46", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

To be warehoused—to institutionalize (people) in usually
deficient housing and in conditions in which medical, educational,
psychiatric, and social services are below par or absent.

Most of these "Warehoused" models are from a
Conscious Eating workshop I attended at the Kripalu Yoga Center. And
while they do have their own insulation, they are well larded with mats
and foam. Speakers are placed for those who do not have their own
voice. The Wilton instructor plans on decorating Lady Godiva with a
blood-like candy-filled cream, and a truck above sucks out their bony
remains and grinds them up and takes them away. In a Chinese Banquet,
the pig’s head is pointed toward the honored guest; here it is pointed
to the peepitrator. The Elizabeth Arden Red Door leads to the outside
arena, and an anesthesia and pasteurization machine provide
psychological immunity to those who cannot empower themselves and
transcend their desires with their own will-power. See these gladiators
sacrifice their bodies for our entertainment as their body and mind
suffers.

Digestion Begins through the Eyes, 46x34", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

This is a perfect gorge if you’ve got
hypokalemia, malnutrition or intestinal ulcers and want to lose time,
effort, money, self-esteem, and electrolytes. Here you can feel weak,
tired, dizzy, slow down your irregular pulse, and re-energize your lazy
colons. In addition, you can cause a dramatic shift to your identity by
riding the mood swings or by taking a soothing bath in the lithium-rich
water. The K line, the potassium tourist bus, arrives early in the
morning and leaves right after dinnertime. Purge by vomiting,
laxatives, water pills, or excessive exercise but do not worry about
lines for the bathrooms—as the divers are free to get disgusted with
themselves, keep their behavior a secret, and be excessive in private at
facilities located all over the park.

Batter Up, 34x46", scanned Fuji 160/400 film.

"Batter UP" and experience love at first bite; welcome to the land of
love where enough is never enough as you're never full, satisfied or
complete. Accompanied by physical and emotional distress, here you can
consume as many tens of thousands of calories as you want within any
two-hour period. Can you hit a home run through all the buffet tables as
the pitcher throws you a brownie? There’s a new Lady of Justice, she
works for Prescriptives and is blindfolded with an eye-soothing mask
that revives tired eyes and reduces puffiness. She grips a cake-knife
and proudly holds a diet scale that accurately weighs in ounces up to
one pound. Penalty Time is missing three periods, but if you miss
yours, just make up a time of the month where you tell people that you
have it.

I think that pig is made of gluten.

234 images were mounted on the wall - that is the temperature of the softball test for making fudge. The
images were printed in different cake sizes-ranging from petite loaf at
2 1/4" by 3 1/2 to full sheet cake size at 16x24. The 4.5x8.5 images
were average loaf pan size, or meatloaf size. ﻿